Sergio Leone Quotes

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it.

Communism was not only defined as the things that Marx and Lenin had advocated, but included anything that had the potential for change in the society.

Be committed to … smashing feudalists, conservatives, and imperialists who are "reactionaries".

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future

We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau.

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.

When you mention the word ideology, everyone has communism in the back of their minds, which was an entirely well formulated ideology and statement of belief. You read the Communist Manifesto and you know what the core of it is.

Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.